Senior AWS Cloud Architect / DevOps & Security Engineer

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• $135K — $160K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of experience in AWS cloud architecture, engineering, DevOps, or security.
  • Hands-on expertise in enterprise AWS architecture and infrastructure.
  • Strong knowledge of AWS services including VPC, IAM, KMS, S3, EC2, RDS, and Lambda.
  • Proficient in Terraform and Infrastructure as Code practices.
  • Experience with CI/CD platforms like GitHub Actions.
  • Solid understanding of AWS networking, security, and encryption.
  • Strong troubleshooting and technical leadership skills.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement AWS environments for various stages including DEV, TEST, and PROD.
  • Translate business requirements into secure and scalable AWS architectures.
  • Create technical documentation and architecture designs following AWS best practices.
  • Implement VPCs, routing, and hybrid connectivity solutions.
  • Build and support AWS services like EC2, S3, and Lambda.
  • Integrate AWS with corporate networks and on-premises environments.
  • Develop infrastructure using Terraform and automate processes with scripting languages.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work on enterprise-level AWS migrations.
  • Hands-on role with a focus on architecture and engineering.
  • Access to advanced AWS technologies and tools.
  • Collaborative environment with cross-functional teams.
  • Potential for professional development and certification support.
Full Job Description
Job Summary
Design, build, secure, automate, and operate enterprise AWS environments supporting mainframe migration to AWS. This is a hands-on architecture and engineering role requiring strong expertise in AWS architecture, networking, security, Terraform, CI/CD, automation, and production operations.

Key Responsibilities
• Design and implement AWS environments across DEV, TEST, UAT, PROD, and DR.
• Translate business and application requirements into secure, scalable, highly available, resilient, and cost-effective AWS architectures.
• Create architecture and solution designs, diagrams, standards, and technical documentation aligned with AWS Well-Architected principles.
• Design and implement VPCs, subnetting, routing, Cloud WAN, VPC endpoints, PrivateLink, Route 53, ALB/NLB, and hybrid connectivity.
• Build and support EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, MWAA, Cognito, Secrets Manager, and Systems Manager.
• Integrate AWS with corporate networks, firewalls, Netskope, and on-premises environments.
• Design and implement IAM roles, cross-account access, KMS encryption, certificate management, secrets management, and security controls following least-privilege principles.
• Integrate Microsoft Entra ID with AWS for enterprise SSO and identity federation.
• Develop infrastructure using Terraform and automate processes using AWS CLI, Python, PowerShell, and Bash.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, including security scanning, policy validation, approval gates, and rollback procedures.
• Implement monitoring and observability using CloudWatch, CloudTrail, VPC Flow Logs, AWS Config, SNS, and dashboards.
• Troubleshoot complex AWS infrastructure, networking, security, IAM, DNS, Linux, database, and managed-service issues.
• Support production operations, incident response, root-cause analysis, disaster recovery, capacity planning, and cost optimization.
• Provide architecture leadership, technical guidance, mentoring, and support to cloud, DevOps, security, infrastructure, and application teams.

Required Qualifications
• 7+ years of AWS cloud architecture, cloud engineering, DevOps, platform engineering, or cloud security experience.
• Strong hands-on experience with enterprise AWS architecture and infrastructure.
• Strong knowledge of VPC, IAM, KMS, S3, EC2, RDS, Lambda, CloudWatch, Route 53, and private connectivity.
• Strong Terraform and Infrastructure as Code experience.
• Experience with GitHub Actions or comparable CI/CD platforms.
• Strong AWS networking, hybrid connectivity, security, IAM, encryption, and secrets-management experience.
• Proficiency with AWS CLI, Linux, Python, PowerShell, and Bash.
• Experience with production operations, monitoring, incident response, and disaster recovery.
• Strong troubleshooting, communication, documentation, and technical leadership skills.

Preferred Qualifications
• AWS Solutions Architect - Professional, DevOps Engineer, Security Specialty, or Advanced Networking certification.
• Experience with AWS Well-Architected Framework and large-scale migrations.
• Experience with MWAA/Airflow, RDS PostgreSQL, Cognito, Network Firewall, Cloud WAN, Netskope, or Cloudera on AWS.
• Experience supporting healthcare, government, or other regulated workloads.

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